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REPORTS, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 
Number. Title. Author. Issued. 
99 Classification of the Cryphalinze with descriptions of ; 
new, species: .. £5488 se. Sci one a eee ee A.D. Hopkins eet vescht eens Mar. 10,1915 
101 The wooly, apple Aphis. eee weer te eeer aac ke oes A. C. Baker .2.........0.....0- Mange 
102 Descriptions of some weevils reared from cotton in 
Pere es dee oo rae ee ee ne oe W: DPiercé: 2.282 See Jan. 25,1915 
107 Larve of the Prionines: 22.55. .vpatepee ae eee eo F.C; Craighead ens eee June 25,1915 
BEE CULTURE. 
Dr. E. F. Putiures, In Charge. 
Mr. George S. Demuth is absent on leave, being engaged in looking after his extensive 
apiary at Peru, Ind. 
Dr. N. E. MeIndoo is to be transferred on July 1 to the Office of Deciduous Fruit Insect 
Investigations, where he will take up some new lines of work. 
Dr. A. H. McCray is expecting to transfer his work on bee diseases to the Drona 
Laboratory about July 1. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS. 
F. M. Wesster, In Charge. 
Mr. L. P. Rockwood has returned to his field station from an investigation of alfalfa insects 
in the Yakima Valley, Wash. 
Mr. T. D. Urbahns, of the Pasadena field laboratory, is looking after serious outbreaks of 
grasshoppers in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys, Cal. 
Mr. V. L. Wildermuth is on a trip of investigation throughout northern Arizona, making 
observations on the distribution and work of Chaetocnema ectypa and Languria nose the 
former being quite destructive to corn and other crops, while the latter has been found much 
more destructive to alfalfa than in the eastern portion of the country. Other insects will also 
claim his attention. 
Mr. E. O. G. Kelly is paying a visit to the Charleston (Mo.) field station, and, with Mr. 
Gibson in charge, is investigating the early stages of Myochrous denticollis. 
Mr. George G. Ainslie is on a trip of investigation of various species of Crambide, which 
seems to be doing a great deal of damage in the cornfields the present year, his trip taking him 
through the States of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Llinois, and 
Iowa. 
Mr. J. J. Davis has returned from a trip of mvestigation of Lachnosterna through Wis- 
consin, northern and southern Michigan. 
Dr. Henry Fox and Mr. W. T. Emery are away from their field stations at Charlottesville, 
Va., investigating outbreaks of the southern corn rootworm (Diabrotica 12-punctata) and the 
sugar-cane beetle (Ligyrus rugiceps) m southern Virginia. 
Mr. W. R. Walton, of the Washington office, investigated an outbreak of chinch bug in 
western Virginia. 
Mr. A. B. Gahan has just returned from a trip to Canada to examine the Provancher types 
of parasitic Hymenoptera. Mr. Gahan found some surprises and is confident that many 
obscurities at present existing relative to these types will be dispelled. 
Mr. Harrison E. Smith, of the Springfield (Mass.) laboratory, is in the midst of an extended 
campaign against grasshopper outbreaks in the Merrimac and Connecticut Valleys; besides, he 
is making arrangements for the collection and transportation of Compsilura to the field station 
